9050 Tasting Notes

kicking the morning off right. Work from home day since i need to hit the dr’s office today. I picked up a few fruit teas yesterday (400g) lol so i need to get some serious sipping done before August is upon us if i want to make my weight goal. On the upside, i’m ok if i don’t since i know that the new teas will be gone before you know it. This is another one of my oldest teas and very near the end of it’s life here. Only a couple more cups worth before it too will be gone. On the plus side it means maybe i can justify picking up another damn fine tea!

had this one in OJ this morning – which of course now always makes me think of poor variatea who can’t make this work. lol worked for me as always, though i do wish there was less sugar in these matcha from david’s.

I wish they had a vanilla matcha without the coconut sugar. I just found that after having some other straight vanilla matchas I just couldn’t handle the sugar in this one anymore. Poor VariaTEA!! Some things are just not meant to be.

Haven’t been drinking much tea over the past week or so because i’m sick, it’s stupidly humid and hot and i have NO CHOICES in my cupboard lol I broke down last night and made a small purchase and today i’m hoping to hit tealish to get a few fruit herbals since i have zero of those in my cupboard and they’re a necessity in the summer. Here’s hoping i don’t go too crazy though as i do have a teavivre order that may never arrive on it’s way and a few teas at VariaTEA’s house tha ti need to pick up (and jam!) woot!

Your two morning posts are full of happy and smiles for me, Sil—what with the creamsicle, and the wee tea tantrum, and the little surge of shopping, and the overseas order that may never arrive, and the hopes of restraint in the next tea shop, and the tea visit with VariaTEA.

Except for the sick part. Sorry that you are under the weather. It’s tricky staying well or doing much of anything in this nonsense. I was hoping that the rain would break the humidity somewhat, but it is still painful.

Yeah it’s been stupidly humid over here too. I was really sick with a bad cold. I actually missed four shifts of work because breathing was such an effort. I swear I coughed so hard I bruised my ribs. I hope you get better soon!!! (I was over the moon once I could breathe normally again)

Oh no, I hope you will feel better soon, darling. My mom always told me since I was a kid how Toronto is known to get ridiculously humid in the summer due to the neighbouring Great Lakes so I don’t envy you at all.

easy and hard to pick a tea when you have nothing in your cupboard lol. Pulled this one out to work on drinking things up. This one is a lot “fruitier” or bright than previous years that were a little more malty. Still a great cup though.

Brought this one with my to work yesterday. I am in desperate need of some summer teas. Because of all the puerh in my cupboard i’m down to about 11 non puerh teas. That’s insane for me. This one hit the spot – just the right balance of apple and caramel.

On a side note, i don’t know about you guys but it drives me mental when companies are on facebook or other social media but don’t respond in a timely manner to questions on those platforms. To me, it’s like having a phone number or email address that you don’t answer.

I think that overall there is a tendency to streamline ways of contact these days. Some respond to email, others text, others call, others FB or instagram or whatsapp or whatever. Few do all of it. The trick, I suppose, is to appropriately guess who does what.

Further, it is after all July, so it is possible that people are in their canoes meditating on the sounds of the loons on the lake.

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So no real clue what to write about myself here. A friend got me into drinking loose tea and it’s something I thoroughly enjoy though I have nowhere near the experience that many folks on the boards seem to have.

My other interests are cycling, reading, board games, disney cruises, world of warcraft and dancing – in no particular order. I love travelling and am currently working on trying to get my other half to as many place in the world as possible.